Meaning of "smear" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SMEAR

Old English smeoru (n); related to Old Norse smjör fat, Old High German smero, Greek muron ointment.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SMEAR

smear  [smɪə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SMEAR

Smear is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb smear in English.

WHAT DOES SMEAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Smear

Smear may refer to: ▪ A smear test, wherein a sample is smeared over a microscope slide to be studied for any pathology ▪ A smear test usually refers to a pap test, that is, a cervical smear ▪ Smear ▪ Smear campaign, a tactic to undermine an individual or a group ▪ Smear Campaign, an album by Napalm Death ▪ Pat Smear, the guitarist and actor ▪ Smear, motion that degrades sharpness, which is generally linear over the integration time ▪ Colloquial name for a glissando, a glide from one musical pitch to another...

Definition of smear in the English dictionary

The first definition of smear in the dictionary is to bedaub or cover with oil, grease, etc. Other definition of smear is to rub over or apply thickly. Smear is also to rub so as to produce a smudge.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SMEAR

PRESENT

Present

I smear

you smear

he/she/it smears

we smear

you smear

they smear

Present continuous

I am smearing

you are smearing

he/she/it is smearing

we are smearing

you are smearing

they are smearing

Present perfect

I have smeared

you have smeared

he/she/it has smeared

we have smeared

you have smeared

they have smeared

Present perfect continuous

I have been smearing

you have been smearing

he/she/it has been smearing

we have been smearing

you have been smearing

they have been smearing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I smeared

you smeared

he/she/it smeared

we smeared

you smeared

they smeared

Past continuous

I was smearing

you were smearing

he/she/it was smearing

we were smearing

you were smearing

they were smearing

Past perfect

I had smeared

you had smeared

he/she/it had smeared

we had smeared

you had smeared

they had smeared

Past perfect continuous

I had been smearing

you had been smearing

he/she/it had been smearing

we had been smearing

you had been smearing

they had been smearing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will smear

you will smear

he/she/it will smear

we will smear

you will smear

they will smear

Future continuous

I will be smearing

you will be smearing

he/she/it will be smearing

we will be smearing

you will be smearing

they will be smearing

Future perfect

I will have smeared

you will have smeared

he/she/it will have smeared

we will have smeared

you will have smeared

they will have smeared

Future perfect continuous

I will have been smearing

you will have been smearing

he/she/it will have been smearing

we will have been smearing

you will have been smearing

they will have been smearing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would smear

you would smear

he/she/it would smear

we would smear

you would smear

they would smear

Conditional continuous

I would be smearing

you would be smearing

he/she/it would be smearing

we would be smearing

you would be smearing

they would be smearing

Conditional perfect

I would have smear

you would have smear

he/she/it would have smear

we would have smear

you would have smear

they would have smear

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been smearing

you would have been smearing

he/she/it would have been smearing

we would have been smearing

you would have been smearing

they would have been smearing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you smear
we let´s smear
you smear

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to smear

Past participle

smeared

Present Participle

smearing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SMEAR»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «smear» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of smear

asperse · bedaub · besmirch · blacken · blot · blotch · calumniate · calumny · coat · cover · daub · defamation · dirty · libel · malign · mudslinging · plaster · slander · smirch · smudge · soil · splotch · stain · streak · sully · tarnish · traduce · vilification · vilify · whispering campaign

TRANSLATION OF SMEAR

Find out the translation of smear to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of smear from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «smear» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 宫颈涂片检查
• Translator English - Spanish: citología
• English: smear
• Translator English - Hindi: धब्बा
• Translator English - Arabic: فَحْصُ عُنْقِ الرَّحْم
• Translator English - Russian: мазок со слизистой оболочки шейки матки
• Translator English - Portuguese: Papanicolau
• Translator English - Bengali: মলা
• Translator English - French: frottis
• Translator English - Malay: Smear
• Translator English - German: Abstrich
• Translator English - Japanese: 塗沫検査
• Translator English - Korean: 도말 표본 검사
• Translator English - Javanese: Smear
• Translator English - Vietnamese: xét nghiệm phết tế bào cổ tử cung
• Translator English - Tamil: ஸ்மியர்
• Translator English - Marathi: डाग
• Translator English - Turkish: simir
• Translator English - Italian: Pap test
• Translator English - Polish: wymaz
• Translator English - Ukrainian: мазок
• Translator English - Romanian: test Papanicolau
• Translator English - Greek: τεστ Παπανικολάου
• Translator English - Afrikaans: smeer
• Translator English - Swedish: cellprov
• Translator English - Norwegian: celleprøve

10 QUOTES WITH «SMEAR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word smear.

1

Heather Brooke

The way the Establishment deals with people like me is to ignore them. When you become unignorable, they will try to smear you, and that's what I feared for a long time. Now I have somehow vaulted into this space where it's difficult for someone to smear me because it would look as though they were being vindictive and spiteful.

2

Sandra Bullock

Nobody can make me cry in public. I'll punch them first before they make my mascara smear.

3

Brooke Burns

I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!

4

Howard Finster

You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.

5

Bernard Goldberg

You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there.

6

Jeff Goodell

The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed.

7

Jeff Greenfield

Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear.

8

Richard Hammond

I don't particularly want to smear myself into a hillside.

9

Steven Hatfill

I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.

10

LeRoy Neiman

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SMEAR»

Discover the use of smear in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to smear and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Direct Smear Atlas: A Monograph of Gram-stained Preparations ...

An invaluable reference and educational tool, this manual is effective both as a standalone text and as an accompaniment to Marler, Siders and Allen's Direct Smear Atlas CD-ROM (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1998).

Linda M. Marler, Jean A. Siders, Stephen D. Allen (MD.), 2001

The Pap Smear

This book covers established light microscopy for screening smears and also new techniques for establishing cell proliferation in smears, confocal microscopy and the applications of neural networks in the screening process.

Mathilde E Boon, Albert J H Suurmeijer, 1996

Gram Stain: Looking Beyond Bacteria to Find Fungi in Gram ...

NEWLY PUBLISHED TRUE STORY: THE ELEPHANT HOTEL, HEDWIG & THE TAGEBUCH By: Marie Kobres Bone Immerse yourself in another time and place with the personal unique pages of this beautiful true story - step back in time with the 1877 TAGEBUCH ...

Subhash K. Mohan, 2009

Basic Medical Laboratory Techniques

Common problems encountered in preparing blood smears and the possible causes PROBLEM POSSIBLE CAUSE(S) Smear too thm Drop of blood too small or too long Spreader slide at too low an angle Improper speed m makmg smear ...

Barbara H. Estridge, Anna P. Reynolds, Norma J. Walters, 2000

Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology

An estimate of the white blood cell count may also be made at this power, and scanning for abnormal cellular elements, such as blasts or nucleated red blood cells, can be performed. It is important to scan over the entire blood smear to ensure ...

John P. Greer, 2009

Varney's Midwifery

Diagnosis Pap Smear. The primary purpose of the Bethesda system for reporting Pap smear findings (see Table 14- 10) is to categorize and describe epithelial cell abnormalities. However, refinement of clinical collection and data analysis ...

Helen Varney, Jan M. Kriebs, Carolyn L. Gegor, 2004

Alcamo's Laboratory Fundamentals of Microbiology

Preparation. of. a. Bacterial. Smear. and. the. Simple. Stain. Technique. Most bacteria have no color, so they generate little contrast in the microscope field. Therefore, to see bacteria with the microscope, it is necessary to apply color by using a ...

Jeffrey C. Pommerville, 2007

Menstrual Disorders

A Pap smear is useful in screening for cervical malignancy. If a cervical lesion or mass is grossly noted, biopsy or excision of the lesion should be incorporated into the evaluation. It is not uncommon for endometrial polyps, uterine fibroids, and ...

Deborah Ehrenthal, Matthew Hoffman (MD.), Paula Adams Hillard, 2006

Medical Assisting: Essentials of Administrative and Clinical ...

PURPOSE: To make an adequate blood smear for a differential white blood cell count. OSNA GUIDELINES: To comply with Standard Precautions, gloves must be worn if there is any possibility of coming into contact with blood or any body ...

Lucille Keir, Barbara A. Wise, Connie Krebs, 2002

Experiments in Microbiology, Plant Pathology and Biotechnology

In case of fungi, it is essential to tease out the material with needles in the suspending fluid on the slide. Whatever the case may be, the material is spread out into a thin film by means of a platinum loop. The film is called smear. The smear is ...

K. R. Aneja, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SMEAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term smear is used in the context of the following news items.

DeSean Jackson: Eagles 'tried to blow me up' after release

It was a smear campaign. Things media said about me, I bet you could say that about the majority of people in the NFL. I got a second chance to play in the NFL ... «ESPN, Jul 15»

Experts Continue to Scale Back Annual Pap Smear

Annual screening is no longer recommended because of the high rate of false-positive results -- when a Pap smear result is abnormal -- tied to frequent ... «WebMD, May 15»

'Smear for smear' campaign leaves many uncomfortable

The idea behind the hashtag is to smear your lipstick across your face, post a picture, add the tag and share. The thing is, smearing lipstick across your face is a ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»

#SmearForSmear: Charity urges public to join smeared lipstick …

Social media users are being urged to smear lipstick across their cheeks and post selfies of the results on social media as part of a cervical cancer awareness ... «ITV News, Jan 15»

Should You Trade Your Pap Smear for the HPV Test?

For years, the only way to screen for cervical cancer was with a Pap smear. Then last summer, the FDA approved the first alternative method: the HPV test. «Shape Magazine, Jan 15»

Aimee Willett's first smear test revealed she has terminal cancer

A mother-of-two with terminal cancer is spending her last months campaigning to lower the national smear test age after her first examination at 25 found she ... «Daily Mail, Nov 14»

New urine test could replace invasive smear tests

Currently all women in England aged between 24 and 64 are invited for a smear test, to detect for abnormal cells, which could point to a possible cancer. «The Independent, Sep 14»

Rev. Al Sharpton accuses Ferguson, Mo., police chief of 'smear …

They're trying to do to Michael Brown what they did to Eric Garner — “smear” his name. The Rev. Al Sharpton hurled that accusation Saturday against the ... «New York Daily News, Aug 14»

Sen. Robert Menendez seeks probe of alleged Cuban plot to smear …

Sen. Robert Menendez is asking the Justice Department to pursue evidence obtained by U.S. investigators that the Cuban government concocted an elaborate ... «Washington Post, Jul 14»

Well | Ask Well: Do Monogamous Women Still Need a Pap Smear?

The annual Pap smear has been a cornerstone of women's health for at least 60 years, and is credited with preventing millions of deaths from cervical cancer. «New York Times, Jun 14»